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Effects of War in History & The Body in Pain
... of peace such as a person "lifting their eyebrows"(Scarry112) while absorbing the political reality of war. On the other hand, by entering a war ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
This essay is about Plato's Allegory of the Cave and what my interpretation is of the images that dwell in the cave.
... s allegory of the cave into contemporary issues. Today, we are bombarded constantly with the reality of war, we go to ... of the light. This means the philosopher's role is to tell people of the reality of the world. The allegory of the cave is a simple work of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Theory of knowledge 2
... the constant hope that atrocities of our past are not repeated. But can hope fit in with the myth and the reality of history. Hope is not ... events in the past. For example we know that the Second World War ended in 1945 as in the same way we know that there ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Marcuse's critique of Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is discussed, and a response is offered from the perspective of a critical rereading of Sartre's text.
... one passage of Being and Nothingness that Marcuse would have certainly found bizarre--Sartre's account of war. /* ... of view of its form" leads more readily to a resolution of the individual and social levels of consciousness. We realize our social reality ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
"The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon" - Discusses the making of art and the philosophy he shares.
... of reality: "When talking about the violence of paint, it has nothing to do with violence of war, it's to do with an attempt to remake the violence of reality ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Descartes - Father of Modern Philosophy
... barrels of money into France. Inventions like gunpowder and cannons were renovating the arts of war. ... of God and the rest of reality. The paradigm shift here, is that prior to Descartes' era God was the only "given"; all reality was derived from knowledge of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
The Philosophy of Religion. The God of Philosophy
... reality of individuals at that given time. Hume suggests that during certain times in history we are told of miraculous accounts of ... twist and a shout of delight that declared open war on all remaining forms of religious "weaknesses." This call for ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Critical Response Of Heidegger's The Age Of World Pictures
... of war and war technology takes place. War shifts to a new level of force, becoming self-referential, not representing other types of struggle and conflicts (causes of war) but war ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Which of Nietzsche's ideas are the most useful for feminist theory and practice?
... understood, performed and talked about in terms of war. There is a position to be ... of Nietzsche's work attacks on the notion of metaphysical truth, which purports to describe the objective existence and intrinsic properties of a subject-independent reality ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Analysis of William Wallace using the “Psychoanalytic Approach”
... reality of the situation The id doesn't care about reality, about the needs of anyone else, only its own satisfaction. Much of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy